Willits Center for the Arts will present “A Classical Afternoon” on Sunday, July 15 at 2 p.m. This will be a fundraiser for WCA and features Wei Wei Liu singing selections from her favorite operas, and Scott Pratt playing pieces from composers as diverse as Gershwin and Poulenc.

Wei Wei was born and raised in China during Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution. She later studied at the Sichuan Music Conservatory in China. Wei Wei first came to Willits in 1992, taking voice lessons from Nadine Patton who lived in Rocktree Valley. She worked with Nadine for nine years commuting from her Bay Area home.

It was during this period that she made many Willits friends. In the Bay Area she worked for seven years with Freita Beinstein, the Moscow Music Conservatory voice coach.

Scott was born and raised in Escondido, California, where he grew up listening to his mother both playing and teaching the piano to her students. Scott completed his undergraduate studies at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and received his Master of Music Degree from the Manhattan School of Music.

He has been soloist with various community orchestras as well as playing concerts and teaching piano in the Bay Area for over 25 years. At present he is on the music faculty of Laney College in Oakland, the Pre College Division of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and the Crowden Music Center in Berkeley.

The Willits Center for the Arts is located at 71 E. Commercial St. in Willits and hope you will join them. Tickets are $12 at the door; wine and snacks will be available.